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Guy wearing a harness at pride except it says "NERVOUS" on it

i made little shrimp playground/shelters 😈

never again will i take photos of my hand with a wide angle lens lest i invoke the wrath of my jesters

^ quote is referenced in the Gizmodo article in reference to another article:

Which. Seriously, it's a bomb ass read and I recommend reading the whole thing. But here's some good main points (pulled directly from the article) for those that don't want to/can't click through:

It sucks that people are treating the Reddit blackout as a joke or assuming it's impotent rage over a minor decision bc it's Reddit when like. No, a tech company shutting down access to their API by forcing third-party devs to pay completely unreasonable fees ($12,000 per 50 million API requests, which to the largest third party clients would be tens of millions of dollars) and in the process destroying both accessibility apps and moderation tools is Bad Actually

Also, this is the death of forums part 2. Forums died in web 1 because it was more convenient to gather on larger social media platforms, like reddit. Reddit is used by a lot of people to find answers to obscure questions that are written by humans and not advertizers or bot. Now reddit is imploding, and a lot of the useful communities (like the 3d printing one) are moving to discord, which makes it impossible for non members to find the answers they need.

We need to bring forums back in a better way, where they are convenient to use and affordable to host, or we will lose the ability to find humans on the internet with answers

ALSO there's the fact that a lot of people use those third party apps because Reddit doesn't provide the resources needed to properly moderate.

Then take into account that the reddit app is also not set up to be beneficial to those with disabilities - yet those third party apps are.

I'm desperately hopeful that because of this we'll see a resurgence of forums. Because with everything collected in one place, it's blatantly apparent that all it takes is something happening to one site and we lose everything on it.

What happens if you put a vast wealth of knowledge in one building with no backups or other copies, and that building burns down?

ten years of fighting and when shit hits the fan tumblr instantly has reddit's back. the greatest enemies to lovers story ever told.

you understand

something im noticing is the redditors are just commenting on everything via reblogs with reckless abandon. and its so funny bc thats how youre MEANT to use this fucking website but we've trained ourselves out of it somehow.

I feel like a fucking chimp raised in a lab let out into the wild and just doing shit without understanding wtf is going on because I was raised to click the button to get cookie

Honestly we could use an influx of people actually commenting. The hostility against speaking above a low mutter was starting to get kind of weird. Like yeah tag talk is great but so many of the "hello, newcomers!" posts straight up say to NEVER comment, like...what? It's making this place feel empty and quiet even though the userbase is climbing, and having that as a norm makes it so a disproportionate amount of comments are left by people who either actively want to be annoying or are socially oblivious, instead of people who...want to particulate in their community. I've definitely noticed an increase recently of people constricting discussion to tags in ways that pretty much deadend conversation, like by chattily responding to conversation starters from my tags in their own tags instead of by copying my tags and responding.

Between how super long posts don't get blockquote-constricted into invisibility anymore AND how the new site settings mean people see tags on their posts unless they go out of their way not to instead of the other way around... Why are we living like this. It's lonely! Let's talk to each other!

[ID: A man with a red beard, wearing glasses, a touqe, and a green sweatshirt that says 'kith' on the front is sitting at a table. The tiktok name on screen is @redbeardrn. There are captions above his head as he speaks, transcribed below, with minor edits for spelling/punctuation.

"What's up everybody. So the other night, I posted about how I had ordered a Diet Baja Blast, and I failed to check the soda with my glucometer before consuming it to make sure that it was diet and not regular. This is something that I tend to do when I order drinks in public, just because in the Baja past, I've been given regular soda instead of diet, and as a type one diabetic, if I'm not taking the proper amount of insulin for the amount of carbs that I'm consuming, my blood sugar will skyrocket, like Baja fast.

So of course, the one time that I did not check it with my glucometer, it ended up being a regular soda. And so you can imagine I was Baja aghast when I started realizing my blood sugar was going up and up and up, and I ended up having a pretty long night of trying to bring that back down, making sure that it didn't Baja last the entire night.

And a lot of you Baja asked me, 'what do you mean, use your glucometer to check the soda?' So I wanted to make a quick video to show you that you can use your glucometer to check to make sure your sodas are actually diet."

At this point, the man puts two plastic cups with a Taco Bell logo on the side on the table, both filled with Baja Blast, a green tinted soda. He starts to unwrap the straws, then blows air in them to shoot the paper wrappers toward the camera, before inserting one into each cup. Captions continue;

"I have two Baja Blasts here. I notoriously cannot the difference between diet and regular." He pauses to take one sip from each cup. "Yeah, I have not a clue. So, if I were out in public, I would take and I would put a little soda just in the cap like that, and I would pop a strip in my glucometer. And then I would dunk the strip, once it's ready, I would dunk it in the soda."

As he speaks, the man covers the end of one straw to pull a bit of liquid out and drop it onto the lid of the cup. He takes his glucometer from offscreen and loads it, waiting for it to be ready before dipping the strip into the small puddle of soda. When he lifts the screen to show the camera, it reads 377. Captions continue:

"Yeah, and so that says three seventy seven. If this were diet, there would be absolutely no sugar content in that at all. So I know that that is not a diet soda. And just to verify, we can do that with what I assume would be the diet now, and I will either get a strip fill error, or a critical low, depending on the type of glucometer you use. So with this one, we'll dunk it in, hold it there, yeah."

He repeats the steps on the second soda, holding the screen up once it has been tested to show it has a black screen with an error message too small to read on camera. Captions continue:

"So for that I got a strip fill error, and I know that that's diet. They also make like a dipstick that you can put in to test the sugar content, so you don't have to use test strips, but this is just a quick and easy way to do it.

This is also a good tip for my fellow ICU nurses out there. If you have a patient that's vented and on tube feeds, and you start suctioning something that you think might be tube feeding, grab a luki trap (Lukens trap), get a sample of that, take your glucometer and do a test of the sputum itself. Because sputum should not have any glucose content to it. So if you test it and all of a sudden it's reading a high glucose, chances are your patient is aspirating their tube feeding.

Um, so yeah, that's just a quick and easy way that you can use your glucometer to check to make sure your soda is actually diet and feel a little more confident that you're not going to end up with a sky high blood sugar. Alright, have a good one." end ID]

(thank you so much to @the-hero-system for writing up the image description! you’re amazing!)

ruh roh, it gets worse

I’m not a Redditor so I could be wrong. But this looks pretty fucking bad

Yuhp.

TLDR: CEO continues to have an absolute meltdown and has brought in the internet Pinkertons to remove moderators of subreddits if they don't reopen, citing the moderator code of conduct rules 2 (set appropriate and reasonable expectations) and 4 (be active and engaged in the community).

identity as a system is so fucked because for the past 4 years we’ve very clearly and aggressively identified as a trans man but now a lot of our frequent fronters and hosts identify as nonbinary and sometimes femininely so now it’s like “well how do we explain this one to people who don’t know we’re a system”

Haters be like

“It’s totally possible to make a path that goes through every door exactly once”

Idk if I did it right

sorry!

it’s true you can’t draw one continuous line that would do the trick. but if the kitty and bunny set out by going through the doors they’re marked beside and each walked the certain way their colored arrows show at the same time their “collective path” as a team would go through each door only once. The moral of the story is actually about friendship , and cooperation, because in this world there are tasks you can’t do on your own.

im just fucking with you i’m pretty sure this has no right answer

i concocted a solution with a 100% mortality rate

Stop being so incredibly funny on my impossible puzzle post

You can switch the tracks so the trolley will kill one person, or you can allow it to attempt the fruitless crusade of running over each person in the maze only once.

all in a days work! *passes out*

My indecisive butt, walking in and being faced with having to make a decision, immediately leaving

oOoOoooo I’m a ghost!

Fire

dude my house

What I love about tumblr is when we see a logic problem meant to be frustrating and/or unsolvable, we almost reflexively try to destroy it.

This website’s userbase is a chimp chewing through a Chinese finger trap

twitter: currently owned by techbro pissman

tumblr: actively removing functionality and bloating the interface with things nobody uses

discord: being retooled by ex-Meta management who don't understand the appeal of the platform

youtube: neutered by advertisers and algorithms and also tiktokification

reddit: half of the site is down due to protests about the removal of third-party API support

facebook: my mom is on there

the r/curatedtumblr -> tumblr migration is so funny to me. it's like going to the zoo and enjoying it so much you climb into the enclosure to live with the monkeys

this reply evokes such an incredible image in the mind’s eye

Tumblr Migration 2: Reddit Boogaloo

We all know about the Twitter immigrants, but there seems to be radio silence on what's happening now with Reddit users from certain subreddits doing a similar thing.

What's happening?

Reddit is restricting their API later this month and killing off third-party apps. An AMA (Ask Me Anything) with the CEO Steve Hoffman was held and it was clear that he would continue with the changes.

In protest, thousands of subreddits across the site are planning to go dark for 48 hours on June 12th. Some are planning to continue indefinitely until the changes are reversed.

Okay, so how does this affect Tumblr?

Some subreddits (mainly queer and left-leaning meme ones, don't worry too much about Reddit Atheists™ overrunning us) are encouraging their users to jump ship to our beloved - and beloathed - hellsite. There will be another influx of new users and many will be unfamiliar with how the site works.

What do us Tumblr users do?

Show them how to use the site; introduce them to the site's culture, tell them to reblog shit and curate their dashboard. Sorta like how we welcomed Twitter users back when they flocked here. Kungpowpenising optional.

I'm new from Reddit, what do I do here?

CHANGE YOUR PROFILE PICTURE AND BANNER TO SOMETHING OTHER THAN DEFAULT BECAUSE THIS SITE IS FILLED WITH BOTS AND YOU MIGHT BE MISTAKEN FOR ONE. This is the FIRST thing you should do after getting a blog.

Other folks can help you with stuff like curating your dashboard or creating sideblogs (or you can look shit up) but please, PLEASE just give yourself an icon and reblog some stuff so people don't mistake you for a bot

This is one of the first posts I've seen after trying to look at Tumblr again, so I've decided to head their advice and reblog this. I don't even know what a reblog is but I'll find out in time. It's a learning process

a reblog is what you just did! it's similar to a retweet on twitter and it's the main way things spread on tumblr

Queer music is impossible to define because we are not a monolith and we all have our own tastes and styles but it sure is not harry styles and taylor swift

ATSV + textposts/tweets

y'know, at first i was a bit disappointed they didn't change gwen's haircut for atsv because i thought that she would look cool with something new since her shaved side would be grown out... but then her hair was used perfectly to express her identity, specifically as a trans person.

throughout the movie, gwen struggles with feeling like she's not being true to herself, and says that it feels like her dad only know HALF of her. meanwhile, gwen's hair looks like this and if you spit a picture of her down the middle then you get one side that looks more like a boy and one that looks more like a girl.

not only that, but when gwen was hiding and isolating herself from her dad, her hair turned blue — meaning her currently pink hair turned blue when she was lying about who she is.

and then when gwen does finally start trying to talk about her feelings and express who she really is inside, this is what happens.

not only does her hair (as well as her bedroom) look reminiscent of the trans pride flag, but she's also mainly turned towards the right in this scene, showing off the longer side of her hair...

anyways, gwen stacy is a tran woman and it couldn't be more obvious.

Life at conception is such a stupid idiot concept I feel like Diogenes

Behold! A herd of stallions!

i think the main thing that pisses me off about people refusing to acknowledge the copaganda in across the spiderverse is that they believe all the cops featured in the story are shining examples of how cops “should be.” i.e., family men who are supportive of their kids and want to make a difference in the world. like, genuine question: do you think the REAL cops who brutalize civilians at protests not have nuclear families at home, don’t go to parent teacher conferences, don’t love and support their teenage daughters, etc? or do you believe the requirement for becoming a cop means having a loveless lonely life akin to that of ebenezer scrooge

like i hate to break it to you, but cops were always meant to be oppressive and violent, if not against everybody then at the very least against a specific class of people. there is no good way cops “should be”; the force is operating the way it’s always been intended to. the idea that cops in media can be good at all (fictional or not) instills the idea in the public that the leading example of a few good apples can reform a system that was never meant to work in favor of the oppressed in the first place, which thereby just pushes total abolition farther back. which is how copaganda fucking works